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Mojorabbit

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16. I know a lot of people who lost their homes

Reply to madville (Reply #15)

Sun Jun 16, 2013, 06:02 PM

Jun 2013

when work dried up during the initial part of the collapse. They were making good money working construction then no work at all. No income, no house. He may have been able to comfortably afford his house till the bottom fell out. It is hard to say.

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